March 28

Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful Spring Break! We missed you and look forward to seeing you tomorrow! If you worked on your practice packets over the break, please bring them in tomorrow. No RAH log this week due to testing.

Our FSA testing schedule is as follows: Please arrive on time each day. If you are tardy, you may not be able to test with the class and will need to do make-up testing.
Wednesday, March 30: READING DAY 1  EARLY RELEASE
Thursday, March 31: READING DAY 2
Friday, April 1: MATH DAY 1
Monday, April 4: MATH DAY 2

Our resources are:

Cox:

Tuesday: PE

Kluge:

Tuesday: Music

Thursday: PE

Class Photo Order Form: Before Spring Break our students took a class photo.  We sent home the order form from Leonards before break.  You can order them online or return the order form after break.

Make checks or money orders payable to: Leonard's

For easy ordering and to pay by credit card, order online as: 
www.leonards.com/photoprepay

Online Password: G355873

Packages you can order:
1- (one) 8 x 10 Class Group with Border
2- (one) 8 x 10 Class Group with Border with protective coating
3- Class Group on a T-Shirt 

Below are a few photos of some of our Peter Pan Readers Theater presentations... so much fun!

March 14

Don't forget, we do not have school on Friday. Spring Break is Friday, March 18 through Monday, March 28. We will resume on Tuesday, March 29.

An optional reading FSA practice packet was sent home this week. It has FSA style passages and questions with a link for the online answer key. Also, I encourage students to complete a few Achieve articles over break. Mrs. Cox will sending home some math review sheets also! Please look for them this week.

FSA dates:  Please be at school on time each day!
Wednesday, March 30: READING DAY 1
Thursday, March 31: READING DAY 2
Friday, April 1: MATH DAY 1
Monday, April 4: MATH DAY 2

Resources next week:
Cox:
Monday: Computer Lab
Tuesday: Art
Thursday Music
Kluge:
Monday: PE
Tuesday: Computer Lab
Wednesday: Art

March 7

Our spring book fair is this week! Our classes will be going on Tuesday. Family night is Thursday from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. 

Monday evening at 6:00 pm, our DCPS school board representative, Jason Fischer, will hold a Town Hall Meeting on the subject of school curriculum. 

Wednesday is Early Release at 1:40 pm.

Class picture day is Tuesday! Individual pictures will be taken also, but only if prepaid.

Resources this week:

Cox: 

Monday: art

Tuesday: media... Please return all library books! computer lab in ELA

Wednesday: computer lab

Thursday: music

Friday: pe

Kluge:

Monday: computer lab and media... Please return all library books!

Tuesday: art

Wednesday: pe

Friday: music

ELA: This week, we will compare and contrast two excerpts of our novel, Peter Pan with readers theater. Both the excerpt and the readers theater will tell the same part of Peter Pan. Students will learn how drama is organized and how to read this unique genre. They will discover how readers theater tells a story purely through dialogue. This is a great way to work on our fluency, too! 

We will also be reading two texts on the same topic and comparing the themes, plots, characters, and settings. 

Please continue to work on Achieve3000 articles at home. We had 15 students raise their Lexile levels in February!!!

MATH: The students are continuing collecting, categorizing, and analyzing data.  They are analyzing graphs to solve one-and two step problems, including comparison problems.  The students will learn that intervals do not have to be whole numbers, but can also have fractional values to help in recording measurement data.  They will review line plots as tools for displaying measurement data which will include fractions on number lines and create their own line plots to display data.

Homework:                                                                                        

Module 6 Lesson 4

Module 6 Lesson 5

Module 6 Lesson 6

Module 6 Lesson 7

Module 6 Lesson 8

Things to practice and review at home:

Help your child develop an understanding of fractions as numbers by providing opportunities to discuss parts of whole at home.

Practice identifying number patterns using multiplication, addition or subtraction strategies.

Continue to review  multiplication and division facts 2 to 10  (We will be testing our facts weekly.)

Practice solving two step word problems involving all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division).

Please check out our DCPS site http://www.duvalschools.org/Page/17284

for homework help and strategies to help with solving homework problems.  You may also find the homework videos helpful.

SCIENCE: The students will continue learning about energy and discuss how light and matter interact.  They will explore what happens when light is reflected in many directions.  The students will begin to understand how objects reflect, refract and absorb light.